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It didn't take long before her cousin barreled at her, clutching tightly onto her … not so clean fur. Yoshi was far little last time she had remembered him. My how he had grown!


The silvered guardian planted herself firmly into the ground. Where she would wrap one of her forelegs tight around his mudcaked fur. Right now clean and formality where tossed out the window. She was relieved to find someone. Anyone.


Hearing his sorrow rang deep in her core, her chest heaved. Her maw pressed into his fur. An embrace she didn't plan to part away from any time soon. Tears rolled down her cheek in relief. Aika tried to mask her sobs, but it was clear as day. She missed him just as much as he did. I'm here now..


Her expression softened, it melted her heart the way his face quivered. I got.. I got lost. Fret not though, the gods showed me here.


And she was here to stay. That's for sure.

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